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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
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Jessica Savitch
Age: 36 †
Born: 1947
Born: February 1
Died: 1983
Died: October 23
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
San Diego
California
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Jessica Beth Savitch
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
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In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
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In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
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Television is intensely personal.
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The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
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Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
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To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.
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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
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In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
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